

Aram Khachaturian recorded selections from his two famous ballets several times for various labels, but this Decca selection of excerpts has long enjoyed particular affection,

This reissue of Ernest Ansermet treasures from the early 1950s is split more or less evenly between Debussy and Dukas, with Saint-Saëns’ popular Danse macabre

Most collectors, I suspect, will want to know how Julius Katchen’s 1953 mono versions of the Prokofiev and Bartók Third Concertos compare to his better

Giulini’s Los Angeles La Mer has had a spotty history on disc yet it remains his finest account of the score, a bit measured in

Charles Dutoit’s Prokofiev never has figured prominently among first-rate recommendations. This Double Decca re-release offers a chance at reassessment. While the heavyweight Alexander Nevsky cantata

Back in the early 1990s when all was well with the classical music record world and Chandos “house” conductor Neeme Järvi was recording everything in

The Lorin Maazel/Cleveland partnership in the 1970s took the tradition of superb playing and chamber music discipline inculcated by Szell into repertoire areas other than

This disc of early recordings by Renata Tebaldi in Preiser’s Lebendige Vergangenheit series will be a necessity for those among the legions of Tebaldi fans

These recordings of Haydn’s six “Paris” symphonies were made in Geneva in April 1962. Ernest Ansermet directs what sounds like a moderate-sized ensemble, scaled down

The Ernest Ansermet volume is one of the best of EMI’s Great Conductors series. It includes terrific, well-chosen performances, only a pair of which are
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